The first trailer for Alien: Covenant, the sequel to 2012’s Prometheus and second prequel to 1979’s Alien was, essentially, a two-minute bloodbath. For those disappointed by Prometheus’s focus on the ...

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Alien: Covenant is the movie every card-carrying Alien fan wanted to be great...but most of them knew deep down it probably wouldn't be the convincing apology for Prometheus that Ridley Scott ...

The latest Alien chapter engineers more gruesome ways to dispose of humans and incubates enough new loose threads to sustain debate for some time to come It’s been five long years since Ridley Scott’s ...

Robbie Collin has been a film critic for 20 years, during which time his reviews have seen him temporarily blacklisted by two major studios, dressed down in front of a Bafta committee and thrown off a ...

Ten years after the events of Prometheus, the second Alien prequel from Ridley Scott sees a colony ship from Earth - called, you guessed it, Covenant - answer a distress call on an isolated but ...

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